Boundless Prover Node Guide - NOT UPDATED ❌

💻 System Requirements

Requirement	Details
CPU	16 cores
RAM	32 GB
GPUs	At least 1 NVIDIA GPU with >= 8GB of VRAM
Disk/Storage	200 GB of solid state storage, NVME / SSD preferred
Operating System	Ubuntu 20.04/22.04

🌐 Rent GPU

• Visit : Vast AI Website
• Sign Up / Sign In on their website
• Go to the billing section and then click on Add Credit to top up
• Click on Coinbase and then choose Metamask if u want to pay with cryptocurrency
• Now complete the payment [Supported network : Ethereum Mainnet, Base Mainnet, Polygon Mainnet]
• Then open a terminal (this could be either WSL / Codespace / Command Prompt)
• Use this below command to generate SSH-Key

ssh-keygen

• It will ask 3 questions like this :

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/codespace/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again: 

• You need to press Enter 3 times
• After that you will get a message like this on your terminal

Your public key has been saved in /home/codespace/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• /home/codespace/.ssh/id_rsa.pub is the path of this public key in my case, in your case it might be different

• You should use this command to see those ssh key :
  • If you are using Linux/macOS (WSL) : cat path/of/that/publickey , in my case, it would be : cat /home/codespace/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  • If you are using Command Prompt : type path\of\that\publickey, in my case, it would be : type \home\codespace\.ssh\id_rsa.pub
  • If you are using PowerShell : Get-Content path\of\that\publickey, in my case, it would be : Get-Content \home\codespace\.ssh\id_rsa.pub
• Now copy this public key and visit vast ai website again
• Then navigate to the key section, click on ssh-key and then paste and save your copied SSH key here
• Then go to the template section and then choose Ubuntu 22.04 VM template and then click on the play icon to select this template
• Here choose a GPU and Rent it
• After that visit Instances section, if your ordered GPU is ready then u will see Connect button there
• Click on it to copy the command and then paste this command on your terminal to access your GPU

🍓Prerequisites

1. Claim Faucet

• First claim USDC faucet from this website to your wallet
• If you want to run this prover on Mainnet as well, then u need to have real USDC on Base Mainnet in your wallet

2. Get RPC

• Get RPC for the network from Alchemy website
• If you want to run this prover on eth-sepolia then u need to get eth sepolia rpc, if base-sepolia then base-sepoia rpc or if base mainnet then u need to get base mainnet rpc

📥 Installation

• Install curl command

apt update && apt install -y curl

• Execute this command to run boundless prover

[ -f boundless.sh ] && rm boundless.sh; curl -o boundless.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zunxbt/boundless-prover/refs/heads/main/boundless.sh && chmod +x boundless.sh && . ./boundless.sh

⚙️ Check Logs

• Use the below command to check logs

docker compose logs -f broker

• You will some similar types of logs after few mins of running

💻 Some commands

• To Stop Broker

  • For eth-sepolia

    just broker down ./.env.broker.eth-sepolia
    

  • For base-sepolia

    just broker down ./.env.broker.base-sepolia
    

  • For base (mainnet)

    just broker down ./.env.broker.base
    

• To Start Broker

  • For eth-sepolia

    just broker up ./.env.broker.eth-sepolia
    

  • For base-sepolia

    just broker up ./.env.broker.base-sepolia
    

  • For base (mainnet)

    just broker up ./.env.broker.base
    

Note : This is the basic stuff, your node will run fine now but I still need to add more things here, so u should check this guide back later